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Edit: Some salty commenters here. This isn’t my graph, just one I grabbed. Notes aren’t mine.

I’m a huge proponent for inflation adjusted livable minimum wage- which should be close to $30 an hour these days. Also hugely worried about our housing cost trends.

I’m only pointing out that expecting games to cost 40-60 for life is a little silly- yall still paying $.10 for a loaf of bread? I remember when games inched from $40 to $60 and everyone lost their minds- no one complains about it anymore. Don’t wanna pay retail? Wait for sales, bundles, used copies.

The Mario part. You can copy the Kart part all day. They've been doing so since at least the 64. See:

• Diddy Kong Racing

• Crash Team Racing

• Burger King Pocketbike Racer

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled: A remaster of the classic

PlayStation kart racer, featuring Crash Bandicoot and his friends.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: Characters from SEGA franchises race in vehicles that transform into boats and planes.

Diddy Kong Racing: Race with Diddy Kong and his friends in karts, planes and hovercraft.

Team Sonic Racing: A kart racer where you work together in teams, using team moves and ultimate abilities.

Nickelodeon Kart Racers Series: Features characters from various Nickelodeon shows.

Disney Speedstorm: A kart racer featuring characters from Disney and Pixar franchises.

KartRider: Drift: A free-to-play kart racer with a focus on drifting.

Lego Racers: Build and race Lego vehicles on various tracks.

Garfield Kart Furious Racing: Race as Garfield and his friends on themed tracks.

Konami Krazy Racers: Race as characters from Konami's popular franchises.

Blur: Combines arcade racing with vehicular combat and power-ups.

ModNation Racers: Features track creation and customization.

LittleBigPlanet Karting: Brings the creativity of LittleBigPlanet into a kart racing experience.

F1 Race Stars: A more arcade-style take on Formula 1 racing.

SuperTuxKart: An open-source kart racing game.

Starlit Kart Racing: A free-to-play kart racer with a variety of game modes.

https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page

Inb4 Tux Racer

If I'm not mistaken, a large component of Nintendo's power comes from Japanese copyright laws being far more pro-copyright holder and Nintendo uses it to its full potential. In Japan, this sometimes results in prison sentences and often big fines. it's also applied outside the country against a consortium of universal copyright recognizing countries and so it can affect you regardless of your location although I forget how exactly.

To @AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 's point, perhaps it is the weak qualifications for Japanese patents which have allowed Nintendo to bully everyone.

Basically every kind of game needs a "MUGEN" for that genre. Then we just put in the content we want and theme it appropriately.

If you wanted to make a Mario Kart clone, copyright is easy enough to avoid. Nearly every other second-rate dev studio has managed to make a half-baked Mario Kart ripoff for whatever Nick Jr show they got the licensing to, so that part's simple.

The real issue is navigating the patent minefield that Nintendo has laid out.

Break out DOSBox and fire up Wacky Wheels from Apogee

...... Not particularly more recently there was a Crash Team Racing remake

Honestly coming up blank for anything else recentish in that genre

The world needs wacky wheels again

Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is oddly slept on. Great kart racer.

A low enough amount that Warframe has a mario Kart esque minigame available in game

The Wii is still a good platform

Modded Wii U playing online on Pretendo Network 😚👌

Haven't seen Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers mentioned yet. Open source game based on the Freedoom engine.

I was going to buy a switch 2 (or attempt to), but at that cost… hell no. Not without dinner first.

If you haven't tried modded Mario Kart Wii before, you're missing out.